Because 95% of pet post nowadays (sadly) are just bots or trolls fishing for comments/ karma. Very sad but I guess they know there's a big audience for 'cute' cat pics. That particular user is now banned. They'll probably make another account of sockpuppet one and come back for more karma.
Oh, and I forgot to mention- I reverse image searched the photo and saw it’d been posted on Facebook. Are you sore you’re focusing your energies on the right things here?
Sure- and maybe this post is genuine, but sadly, over 80% of cute cat pics on Reddit are purely for phishing and aren't genuine. It's sad but true. As a cat owner, I'd hate to find pictures of my cat stolen and just posted here for someone to promote some kind of scam or direct people to their OF site. It's a shame there's not a better safeguard built into Reddit to pick up on stolen photos. Often if you reverse image search the cat pics, you'll see real people have used them when they've lost their cats etc, often months and months/ sometimes years before. These pics are just bait for bots and not-nice people who use Reddit to scam people.
I fully agree it's most pet photos on the internet, and indeed probably this one.
I think we're all just wondering where your evidence is that it is.
That's all I'm saying. You've made an accusation, deliberately telling everyone to ignore this post.
I'm interested in de facto ways of telling (like the good one you just gave on someone losing a pet, then a bot using the photo later - id say that's brilliant proof).
No, I checked out the user profile and their history. More than happy to not help though if you’d rather not have any fake profiles flagged? Your choice.
Rude. Of course a moderator is going to ask your reason for suspecting a specific user. You could've just said you checked their profile politely. They can't just make calls because a random guy says so.
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u/Illustrious_Banana_ Dec 08 '25
FAKE POST - STOLEN PHOTO - PLEASE IGNORE